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  1. J. Robert Oppenheimer. J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈɒpənhaɪmər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project 's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb " for ...

  2. Jul 24, 2023 · Speaking to News 3LV, Vanderford said her family did not contribute to the making of the movie. After seeing "Oppenheimer," she felt "positive about it." She called her grandfather, whom she never ...

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  3. Jul 21, 2023 · Cillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer in the new Christopher Nolan movie "Oppenheimer.". It explores how the scientist created the world's first atomic bomb. Oppenheimer had a wife and two ...

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  4. Mar 8, 2024 · Peter Oppenheimer. Corbis/Getty Images Kitty and Robert's oldest child Peter was born in Pasadena, California, in 1941, before the family moved to Los Alamos for the Manhattan Project.

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    • When he was 12 years old, J. Robert Oppenheimer was invited to give a lecture on geology. Oppenheimer majored in chemistry as a Harvard undergrad and later made a name for himself as a physicist, but rocks and minerals were his first scientific love.
    • He also studied cosmic rays. NASA describes cosmic rays as a “puzzling form of radiation” that consist of “electrically charged, subatomic particles that crash into our atmosphere, where they are broken up and fall to Earth in even smaller fragments.”
    • Oppenheimer helped family members escape Nazi Germany. Oppenheimer hailed from a (non-observant) German Jewish family. In 1937, he used his own money to sponsor his Aunt Hedwig and her son Alfred—plus Alfred’s family—when they fled their home to come stateside after Hitler rose to power.
    • The first atomic weapons were developed under his leadership at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The physicist was just 38 years old in 1943, when General Leslie R. Groves chose him to direct the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico.
  5. Jul 21, 2023 · That was several years into his marriage to biologist Kitty Puening. Nearly seven months after Tatlock and Oppenheimer’s final June 1943 meeting, Tatlock’s father found his 29-year-old ...

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  7. Jul 12, 2023 · Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer: Played by Emily Blunt, “Kitty” Oppenheimer married J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1939. She was a trained botanist forced to put her career on hold when moving to ...

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